Eric Plasencia

I'm skinny even though I eat a lot. Weird.

[Eric Plasencia @eric_plasencia]

Storify project: https://t.co/64L7kPyewr #hist1102

[Eric Plasencia @eric_plasencia]

@ecarrion42 that quote about latin America is almost comical. #hist1102

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@AndyTrujillo33 yeah, it's really a crazy thing to think about. #hist1102

[Eric Plasencia @eric_plasencia]

@BurgessAbrionna i always wondered why soccer was so important to many Europeans #hist1102

[Eric Plasencia @eric_plasencia]

Never knew a British soldier in WW1 spared Adolf Hitler. A single bullet could've stopped WW2 from ever happening. What if? #hist1102

[Eric Plasencia @eric_plasencia]

(Cc 8:49-9:00) areas of large scale ethnic cleansing include Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Congo, and Afghanistan. #hist1102

[Eric Plasencia @eric_plasencia]

(Cc 8:49-9:00) we've seen large-scale ethnic and nationalistic violence from all over the world #hist1102

[Eric Plasencia @eric_plasencia]

The Soviets during the cold war were equally as totalitarian as nazi Germany. #hist1102

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English writer George Orwell was first to use the term cold war #hist1102

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(Me) the cold war made the world very polarized. One side with democracy and capitalism, and the other with communism & socialism #hist1102

[Eric Plasencia @eric_plasencia]

(Me) during the cold war, there were multiple times where nuclear bombs were almost launched from either side #hist1102

[Eric Plasencia @eric_plasencia]

(Me) during the cold war, there were multiple times where nuclear bombs were almost launched from either side #his1102

[Eric Plasencia @eric_plasencia]

(Me) the cold war was based on disagreements and the inability to compromise. #hist1102

[Eric Plasencia @eric_plasencia]

(Me) the cold war began because the Allies of ww2 couldn't agree on how the maps and borders should look after the war #hist1102

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(Me) the two sides of the cold war were the Warsaw pact and NATO. #hist1102

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(Crash course) if the USA and USSR ever did fight a real war, it would be unimaginable how bad it would be. #hist1102

[Eric Plasencia @eric_plasencia]

@jeffriesj0604 the soviets do things very strangely. #hist1102

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@jas_end Hitler didn't only want the land for food, he wanted the Germans to be able to live there. #his1102

[Eric Plasencia @eric_plasencia]

Finished my storify project early. Let me know what you think. https://t.co/dmGYNSRN8P #hist1102

[Eric Plasencia @eric_plasencia]

(Nagasaki photos) these photos are awful. They show how bad war can be and even for citizens. #hist1102